CMoR Chesterfield
CMoR Chesterfield 6629 Lake Harbour Drive, Midlothian, VA When the temperature hit 95 and the pool was closed for a swim meet, I knew just where to go for an afternoon of fun with the boys – the newly-opened Children’s…
Lord of the Flies
I read Lord of the Flies, the literary classic by Nigel Williams, in high school – long enough ago that I had forgotten many of the details. Good versus evil, the biblical themes, the symbolism. But none of that really…
Review of The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales
As with A Year With Frog and Toad, I was not familiar with the book before the day of our play outing, but fortunately, my much-more-well-read editor’s family loaned me their copy of The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly…
Disney’s The Lion King
The majesty of the African savannah comes alive in The Lion King, a stunning show displaying all of the wonders that imagination and an enriching culture have to offer. After viewing Broadway in Richmond’s production of The Lion King I…
Disney’s “The Lion King” is Broadway for the Ages and at its Best
I’ll admit it. When my 13-year-old daughter, Robin, and I were tapped to review Disney’s The Lion King on behalf of RFM, I hadn’t planned to let on that we had seen the show at the Kennedy Center four years…
Fairy Tale Ball 2012 Celebrates the Magic of Dr. Seuss
How many kids get to go to black tie events? In Richmond, Saturday night, hundreds, thanks to Theatre IV’s annual charity ball. This event raises money to help share their stage productions with less advantaged families and schools and supports…
A Teen’s Take on Always…Patsy Cline
From the start, it was obvious that the audience would fall to pieces for Always… Patsy Cline, the sweet two-act musical staged by Virginia Rep at Willow Lawn. When we saw it at Hanover Theater, half of the men in…
Seussical The Musical
Seussical - A Theatre IV Production Oh the places you’ll go when you put a fabulous script and score in the hands of a fabulous cast in a fabulous downtown Richmond theater. This perfect storm comes in the form of Seussical,…
A Teen’s Take on Croaker
The School of the Performing Arts in the Richmond Community, or SPARC, has proven to everyone for more than thirty years that young people can really put on a show, and this production was no different. An original play…
Picasso, That’s Who! and so can you!
Picasso, That’s Who! and so can you! Hope Harris CD Review Thank you, Hope Harris, for doing for me what a four-year liberal arts education could not: inspire me to explore art history. I learned more in one hour with…
